Other occupations that people associate with alcohol, like sailors and musicians, really do have elevated mortality rates. Plenty of jobs involving manual labor also make this list.

The numbers listed in this article refer to white men in occupations with a sample size greater than 2,300 deaths. Based on the same data last week we published a list of the most suicidal jobs (you don't want to be a physician). See the last slide for a discussion of deaths linked to alcoholism for other races and genders.

1) Bartenders are 2.33 times more likely to die from alcoholism than average

The most deaths linked to alcoholism for women and blacks

We focused on white men because they represented by far the largest data set. We were told by NIOSH that data could not be accurately compared across demographics.

For white women, jobs with the most deaths linked to alcoholism with a sample size greater than 2,300 were bartenders (2.89 times higher than average); editors and reporters (2.28 times higher than average); and musicians and composers (1.87 times higher than average).

For black men, jobs with the most deaths linked to alcoholism with a sample size greater than 2,300 were gardeners and groundskeepers (1.66 times higher than average); garbage collectors (1.63 times higher than average); and farm workers (1.52 times higher than average).

For black women, jobs with the most deaths linked to alcoholism with a sample size greater than 2,300 were farming-related occupations (1.91 times higher than average); housekeeping (1.74 times higher than average); and those who never worked (1.30 times higher than average).